The Loom celebrates its 5th year of bringing today’s best poets to the charming mill town of Harrisville, NH, welcoming two New Hampshire poets, Alice B. Fogel, former NH Poet Laureate with a brand new book Falsework, and Meg Kearney, All Morning the Crows. 

Praise for Alice B. Fogel’s work

“The marvelous specificities of her poems demonstrate a fierce and admirable passion . . . with a steadfast gaze at the natural world as intense and perfectly rendered as that of Rilke’s panther.”

­ —Publishers Weekly

“Fogel’s perspective fascinates . . . has its own concrete effect on the heart.”

—David Mehegan, Boston Globe

“To read Alice Fogel’s poems is to enter, or rather to be drawn, always toward an inner space. Every image, every word unlocks a secret door into a farther room….Her poems shine with intelligence. Brooding and meditative, Fogel is a poet alert to every nuance of the inner life, a true phenomenologist of the soul in that New England tradition to which both Emily Dickinson and Jane Kenyon belong. She is one of the best poets we have.”

—Charles Simic, former US Poet Laureate

 Praise for Meg Kearney’s work

“There is a subtle formal accomplishment in her poems that is often disguised by … the directness of her language.”

—Keith Taylor in the The Massachusetts Review

“This book goes well beyond a metaphoric treatment of birds and their habits. Instead, their differing characteristics comprise a jumping-off point for a mythology of selfhood—a lens through which to examine and confront a personal history…. Untranslatable and mysterious as any mythology, a various history of a changeable self accumulates in these inventive, charged, and often ecstatic poems. Meg Kearney’s poems both delight and complicate—”

—Cleopatra Mathis, author of After the Body and Book of Dog